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The page is confusing. Here is an example https://github.com/stevedekorte/io/blob/master/samples/misc/...

How to make better landing page -> http://www.rust-lang.org/

Surely it's unfair to expect the GitHub page for a language, much less some deep-linked sub-page of it, to be a professional landing page? The page linked from the post, iolanguage.org, is (intentionally) minimalist, in the spirit of the language, but still a reasonably good landing page. (Also, as near as I can tell, although it contains a link to GitHub, under 'source' where one would expect, it contains no direct link to the page that you provide.)

I agree with the parent. Upon encountering the page, my first feeling is that this is one of THOSE landing pages.

Of course, I know this is just me bringing my biases to the thing, but that's the way it is.

I don't expect "professionalism" or beautiful design, but give me the good stuff first (use cases, samples).

I didn't mean to argue about the virtue of the actual landing page (it doesn't 'sell' the language, but I'm fine with that), only of tying your complaint to a GitHub page rather than the actual landing page. (Was it maybe an errant cut-and-paste?)

Only one click away from landing page is the Io Programming Guide. I've always thought it was a well written introduction to Io - http://iolanguage.org/scm/io/docs/IoGuide.html

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